Hanna Werning: Animals and Flowers Wallpaper
















Just came across Hannah Werning's work and had to post it on my blog. I am inspired by the way in which she has built an illustration made from layers of intricate patterns and shapes found naturally in the forms of flowers and wildlife.

The Dover Bookshop, 18 Earlham Street, Covent Garden.


I visited the Dover Bookshop today as apart of my research. The store stocked a wide variety of illustration and pattern books which I browsed through for inspiration-Definately worth the visit.

Contemporary Clip- Art brief:

Just a note about Contemporary Clip-Art brief. The new project requires us to work on generating about 10 clip-art illustrations based on a variety of theme's so I decided to choose "Nature" as the theme of my choice. I think it's great that the appoach to this project is really broad where we can generate the images using a variety of media at any scale to produce the final outcome.

Part 3 Printed:

There were a few problems getting it printed as one of the colour printers wasn't working and could only produce non digital copies so I had to wait until it was fixed!. Anyway, Here are some pics of the A3 print out's of both the front cover and article. Dissapointed with the quality of the pics even though they were scanned in at 450 dpi. I feel the quality could have been better. Im pleased with the layout as I think the compositionworks well with the content.

After working on the layout I could finally start on the front cover. Many High Fashion Magazines often rely on one dominant image that graces the front cover of the magazine. Taking inspiration from this provided to be a problem. The image used for the front cove of Gun Mart wasn't the most stylish of images. After working on photoshop to increase its canvas size I then started to clone stamp the background to increse it before layering the text on top. I started to highlight the typefaces using white and orange in Baskerville Bold as the background was very dark. I also wanted to establish a visual link between the text and the background image.

I decided to work on the double page article by setting up and designing the intended layout before importing any content from Gun Mart magazine. After making various changes to the size of text and image boxes, I started to study various typefaces that would be visually effective in communicating the essence of sophistication and style. After researching various High Fashion magazines it was evident that less is most definately more, Many of which adopted a minimal approach. As a result from my research, I decided to use typefaces such as Baskerville and Minion Pro for many of the headings. I then started editing the Gun Mart content. I chose to use the subheading's "Quality assured" and Shooting Impressions" using Old Baskerville as the typeface. I decided to use this as the header for the main feature of the article as it seemed the most likely to be used in a high fashion publication. I then started to import the article and images. High Fashion magazines usually layout large articles of text over several pages. Therefore, After editing the article down to fit the text box I decided to continue the article across both pages to balance the composition and lead the eye across both pages. Working with the images proved to be the most difficult of tasks as many of them were of low quality. I decided to use the best quality ones and started to form a composition for each. I also added subtitles in red to form descriptions, add colour and visually link it with the article. Finally, I cropped the word "Shotguns" to link the article with the images. I am pleased with the result of the layout.